Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor. He attacked the General Strike (1926) as a Bolshevik conspiracy. For ten years he denounced Socialism as the source of all post-War troubles...
...Visiting General Gamelin in France when news of the pact broke, Elder Statesman Churchill caught a plane for Croydon, dashed off a brilliant article for the London Daily Mirror, At the Eleventh Hour, on his way home. "Along all frontiers hundreds of thousands of men, armed with the most deadly weapons ever known, and behind them millions more, await the dread signal. There is only one man who can give it. There he sits, torn by passion and foreboding, by appetites and fears, with his finger moving toward a button which-if he presses it-will explode what is left...
...everything about Italy last week was curious. When the German-Soviet Pact was announced to the people, some editors elaborately explained that after all Fascism was a proletarian doctrine, so why shouldn't it march with Russia? The newspaper of Party Secretary General Achille ("the Panther Man") Starace called the deal "pure Machiavellianism" (much admired by Fascists) and hinted that Italy had thought...
...Mussolini, less than any other major head-of-State in Europe, could not afford big war right now. Italy is poor. Gasoline went to 95? per gallon last week. Coffee above $1 per Ib. - i. e., did not exist. Italy is peace-willing (General Italo Balbo spoke for other Army men when he urged that Il Duce try to carry out President Roosevelt's peace suggestion). And Italy was scared...
...European war as return for their participation in the Spanish war. Last week the Soviet-German Pact gave Spain a perfect out, which she was quick to seize. How could Spain fight hand in hand with Communism, which she had spent three years stamping out? Last week General Francisco Franco took steps to insure absolute neutrality: closed Spain's border with France, hastened demobilization of his troops, dissolved surviving branches of his General Staff...